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this might be a rant. or it might be the truth. or it could be both.
I’m not anti-higher education. I’m really not. (Although I think you already know how I feel about a system.) Shoot, I loved college. It was a good time. (Which promotes my point exactly.) I love learning. I mean, I’m dedicating my very life to the process, you know. But the more I teach, the more I learn, the more I…
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Wildwood Academy: Group Study
Homeschool is proceeding differently this year. A true statement I can make every year. Even though I waited in line a loooong time to get into a fabulous homeschool co-op last year, we’re not all doing the same co-op this year. (And it still is fabulous, mind you – just not what our house needs this year.) Riley is attending…
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Dear Every Friend I Have With Whom I Never Seem To Be Able To Spend Enough Time . . .
Dear Every Friend I Have With Whom I Never Seem To Be Able To Spend Enough Time . . . There have been times in my life when friendships were plentiful and times when friendships were few. High school was full of friends. Junior high not so much. Freshman first semester I was a little hard-pressed to land with solid…
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Today I Lived
Today I . . . Heard about cookie butter for the second time but have yet to actually see the food product. Forgot to bring the laundry in again after two days of rain showers. I think I saw a towel in the lawn but I just don’t want to walk over there and deal with it. Put off making…
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How To Celebrate Five With About That Many Dollars
1. Allow your daughter the rare (first in her lifetime actually) privilege of choosing three friends to invite over for an evening of fun. 2. Instruct the girls to all wear dress-up princess attire. 3. Have big sisters paint finger nails and toe nails, brush hair, apply sparkle lip gloss and show the girls their reflections in a handheld mirror.…
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Book Club
I can’t believe we didn’t take a picture. Not one picture. Not this month. Not last month. Not the month before. Five mothers. Six daughters. That many cell phones equipped with efficient cameras and still no pictures. Three months ago several friends and I began a new venture together with a portion of our daughters. Book Club. It’s a Mother…
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it is true
This is true . . . Bergen took a bath tonight using his snorkel and scuba mask. When I asked Otto what letter he learned in school today he said, “Two times”. I really meant it when I said to my friend, “I don’t mind the Legos strewn across the boys’ bedroom floor.” I almost refuse to clean out…
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Five Year Old Finnian.
There’s no end to the posts I’ve written about my youngest daughter. But when it’s your birthday – you get another one! Piper Finnian Willow Lacey turned five. Five! Half a decade. Little year on top of little year on top of little year. She only remembers ever having lived in South Carolina. She has no recollection of sleeping in…
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Keigley Campaign: The Idea(l)
I think it was May when we first had the idea. Yes, yes it was May. (I like how a blog reminds me of things I forget.) And it was also May when I said my plan was to tell you about our camping campaign idea. (I don’t like how blogs remind me of things I forget to do.) And…
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toy wedded bliss.
Kids get attached to specific toys. Growing up, my younger brother and I had our favorites. We loved Cabbage Patch Kids and we loved these two plastic Care Bears we carried in our pockets everywhere. My Buddy and Kid Sister were popular pals for us (anyone remember their theme song?) and we had two koala bears that accompanied us on…
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Wildwood Academy, established . . . uh, I’m bad with numbers
A few of our school supplies have not yet arrived in brown cardboard boxes at our door. However, we have officially begun the 2012-2013 school year. (I never have liked the fact that we tag on the next year’s date with this year’s date when we describe the school year. It makes the current year seem to go by so…
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hello new school year
School’s back in session. And I’m snagging another one of Charlotte Mason’s ideas to encourage me to keep focus this year. I crafted a little art project with the quote and placed it in our school room. (I’ve been saving this ripped children’s book from my own kid days for a number of years, just waiting for the right art…
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Weekend Company
It wouldn’t be a weekend visit from family if we didn’t introduce them to one of our favorite places. Sky Top Orchards, where the Honey Crisp are ripe for only a few weeks and the views from the orchard are life-giving. It’s so wonderful when an Ohio relative makes that long drive down South. The kids were thrilled to hear…
